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Engineer Your Focus: Practical Steps to Enter & Sustain Flow State

Engineer Your Focus: Practical Steps to Enter & Sustain Flow State

Update: 2025-07-24
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When was the last time you got so absorbed in your work that time disappeared?

That's Flow State, the peak performance zone where tasks feel effortless, creativity flows, and your output boosts up to 500% without the usual exhaustion and burnout. It’s the powerful psychological phenomenon behind breakthroughs from Archimedes to Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, Fallingwater.

Join Moah and Alex as they unravel the science of optimal experience: what happens in your brain, why it's so elusive in our interrupted world and what those interruptions are costing you (2.1 hours daily adding up to 5 work weeks a year).

They will share actionable strategies to systematically create the conditions for 'Flow State’ that worked for them and their team; from setting up your personal "flow-prone" bubble to implementing company-wide initiatives like "Maker Time" and distraction-free hackathons.

Tune in to reclaim your time, boost your output, and finally love your work again.

Links from the show!

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi https://archive.org/details/flow-the-psychology-of-optimal-experience-pdfdrive

Flow and work place burnout https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032717317822?via%3Dihub

Group Genius: https://www.groupgenius.net/

Infinite Work Day Microsoft Report https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/breaking-down-infinite-workday

Neuro Imaging Study for Flow State https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2024/March/New-Neuroimaging-Study-Reveals-How-the-Brain-Achieves-a-Creative-Flow-State

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

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Engineer Your Focus: Practical Steps to Enter & Sustain Flow State

Engineer Your Focus: Practical Steps to Enter & Sustain Flow State